Sex Workers Want Rights, Not Rescue
People love a rescue story, which is why Sound of Freedom is doing so well at the box office. But our obsession with stories about good guys with guns rescuing …
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“Textualism’s Political Morality” by the Honorable Neomi Rao
In March 2022, the Honorable Neomi Rao of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit delivered the Sumner Canary Memorial Lecture on “Textualism’s Political Morality.” The Case Western …
New Federal Merger Guidelines Hint: Maybe Just Don’t Merge Anything at All
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) yesterday released new draft guidelines for mergers and acquisitions. The proposed rules would govern how the two agencies tasked …
Why Did Joe Biden Stop Talking About the Deficit?
At times last summer, it seemed like the only thing President Joe Biden wanted to talk about was the federal budget deficit. “We’re on track to cut the federal deficit …
Poll: 44 Percent of Millennials Want To Make Misgendering a Crime
“Referring to someone by the wrong gender pronoun (he/him, she/her) should be a criminal offense,” millennials say in a new poll. Americans, particularly younger Americans, often lament that our country …
Federal Officials Can Keep Pressing Tech Platforms To Remove Content for Now, Court Says
Court puts order blocking Biden administration from pressing for social media content moderation on hold. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit put on temporary hold an order …
Poems of Emigration: “Simply People Who Couldn’t Think as Instructed”
Russian history has produced a subgenre of poems and songs about emigration (something American history has fortunately been largely spared). I blogged in March about Yevgeniy Kliachkin’s “Farewell to the …
No Pseudonymity or Sealing in College Student’s Race Discrimination Lawsuit
From Judge Rachel Kovner (E.D.N.Y.) in Anonymous v. Doe, decided last week: Between June 14 and June 20, 2023, plaintiff, proceeding pro se and under the name “Anonymous,” filed four …
Call for Papers: Free Speech and Civil and Social Progress
Request for Paper Proposals Snapshot: Voices for Liberty, an initiative of the Liberty & Law Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School, seeks to examine the ways in which free …
Congratulations to Brady Kelly, the Chief Justice of FantasySCOTUS OT 2022
The October 2022 Term of FantasySCOTUS has come to a close. This term was one a bit of a letdown after last term, but still packed some punch. And FantasySCOTUS …